Biblioteca Museu Victor Balaguer

The Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer is positioned in Vilanova I la Geltru and changed into founded in 1884 by Víctor Balaguer so that it will thank the city for its support at some stage in his flesh presser profession. Since 2000 the museum is part of the National Art Museum of Catalonia and the library is a part of the National Library of Catalonia. The building was built between 1882 and 1884, it's miles from the architect Jeroni Granell I Mundet and it is positioned in the centre of Vilanova i LA Geltru, surrounded by using the railway station, the advanced engineering’s technical college of Vilanova I la Geltru of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the library of this faculty.

It changed into specifically conceived as a library and museum, which turned into unusual at that time. The building is temple’s fashioned and it has neo-Egyptian and neo-Greek ornamental elements, one-of-a-kind details of public architecture in Catalonia on the give up of the 19th century, simply earlier than the Modernisme arrived. It became conceived to make acknowledged, thru items and files of all kinds, everything of the understanding. His founder contributed with books, magazines and other documents. The founder’s purpose become to open it to any citizen “without any type of low-cost or social exclusion” it become the precedent of Catalan public libraries.